Among homicide victims ages 10 to 24 years-old, 81% were killed with a firearm (CDC 2007a).
The FBI's Crime in the United States estimated that 66% of the 15,517 murders in 2000 were committed with firearms.
According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from -
a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2%
a retail store or pawnshop for about 12%
family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source for 80%
Germany-
A number of criteria must be met before a firearms ownership license is issued:
age of consent (18 years for rimfire calibers/21 years for higher calibers) (§ 4 WaffG)
trustworthiness (§ 5 WaffG)
personal adequacy (§ 6 WaffG)
expert knowledge (§ 7 WaffG) and
necessity (§ 8 WaffG) (Necessity is automatically assumed present for licensedhunters and owners of a carry permits (Waffenschein)).
Persons who are
convicted felons
have a record of mental disorder or
are deemed unreliable (which includes people with drug or alcohol addiction histories and known violent or aggressive persons)
are barred from obtaining a firearms ownership license.
China-
Gun ownership in the People's Republic of China outside of the military, police, and paramilitary is forbidden. Possession or sale of firearms results in a minimum punishment of 3 years in prison, with the maximum being the death penalty.
Why is America so much more violent than any other country?
What are some factors that you think cause violence?
Aren't these factors relevant in other countries?
Charlton Heston-“I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it,”
Al Gore- All my proposals are focused on that problem: gun safety. None of my proposals would have any effect on hunters or sportsmen or people who use rifles. They’re aimed at the real problem. Let’s have a three-day waiting period, A cooling off, so we can have a background check to make sure that criminals and people who really shouldn’t have guns don’t get them.
Economic Cost of Gun Violence: $100 Billion annual overall cost
Most victims are uninsured (debts are paid by public taxpayers)
(Cook & Ludwig) Breakdown in Cost by Incident
$22,400 each for unintentional shooting $18,400 each for gun assault injuries
$5,400 each by suicide
(Ted R. Miller & Mark A. Cohen ;The Cost of Gunshot & Stab wounds’’ Accident analysis and Prevention 1997)
Indirect Cost: (re: lost of productivity, mental healthcare, emergency transport, andinsurance administration)
$2.8 Million per firearm fatality $249,000 per hospitalization for gunshot victim
$73,000 per emergency room visit for released gunshot victims
(Phillip J. Cook, Gun Violence, ;The Real Cost; Oxford University Press 2000) Estimated Annual Treatments for Gunshot Victims:
$100-$126 billion per year (Miller & Cohen) (Linda Gunderson, ;The Financial Cost of Gun Violence; Annals of Internal Medicine 1999)
Children and Firearms:
More than 10 children, and teenagers 19 and under, are killed by guns EVERYDAY, and many more are wounded.
77% of murdered juveniles 13-19 are killed by firearms 39% of households have a gun, 24% are handguns Annually 1,409 children and teenagers have taken their own lives with guns
Guns kept in the home for self protection are 22x’s more likely to kill a family member or friend than to kill in self defense (;Facts For Families; July 2004) The Comparison of Gun Violence in the US and other countries -- the total of murders by handguns: 11,789 United States
373 Germany
151 Canada
57 Australia 54 England & Wales (total)
19 Japan *These numbers only account for homicides, does not include suicides; (The Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence)
MORE SOBERING FACTS;
Among 26 industrialized nations, 86% of gun deaths among children under the age of 15 occurred in the United States . (The Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence)
Contrary to beliefs young children possess the physical strength to fire a gun 25% 3-4 year olds, 70% 5-6 year olds, 90% 7-8 year olds including most semi- automatic handguns. (Christoffel Naurecka, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 1995)
Taxpayers pay more than 85% of medical cost for treatment of firearm related injuries. (;The Cost of Hospitalization for Firearm Injuries; Jama vol.260 November 25,1998, Abstract Journal of Trauma February 1995)
In a 10-year span, 633 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed by firearms in the US ; a handgun was the murder weapon in78% (492 victims) of those murders; of the remainder, rifles killed 106 officers and shotguns killed 35. In total 253 slained officers were equipped with armor as well. (US Dept. of Justice)
In a 19 year time span (1977-1996) the firearm industry produced 85,644,715 firearms.
39,024,786 handguns 26,651,062 rifles
19,969,867 shotguns *These are reflections of the numbers produced in the US alone.(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
While handguns account for only 1/3 of all firearms owned in the US , they account for more than 2/3 of all firearm related deaths each year. (Lee Kellerman ;The Epidemiology Basis for Prevention of Firearm Injuries 1991)
Every 2 years more Americans die from firearm injuries than the total number of American soldiers killed during the 8 year Vietnam War. (CDC National Center for Health Statistics Report 1999)
Teens & Easy Access to Guns
39% of teens know someone who has been shot before 37% of teens know someone they can get guns from
27% of teens know a gun is kept in their house, apartment, or car (Teenage Research Unlimited 2003) More than 3,500 students were expelled from school in 1998-1999 for bringing a gun to school, 43% of them were in elementary or junior high school. This means that in a 40 week period an average of 88 children per week nationwide are expelled for having guns at school.
*These figures only include those students who were caught.
(US Dept. of Education 1998-1999)
· During 1999 52% of all murder victims younger than the age of 18 were killed by firearms, and 82% of these victims were between the ages of 13-19 years old. (FBI Uniform Crime Report)
59% of students in grades 6-12 know where to get a gun and 2/3 of these students say they can acquire a gun within 24hours. ( Harvard University )
Most Murder Victims ages 12-17 are Black:
Of the 24,950 juveniles ages 12-17 who were murdered annually between 1980-2000 12,880 were black 52%) and 11,270 were white (42%). The remaining 620 murdered were combined as American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, or Pacific Islanders. (Trends in the Murder of Juveniles; 1980-2000)
The FBI's Crime in the United States estimated that 66% of the 15,517 murders in 2000 were committed with firearms.
- According to the 1997 Survey of State Prison Inmates, among those possessing a gun, the source of the gun was from -
- a flea market or gun show for fewer than 2%
- a retail store or pawnshop for about 12%
- family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source for 80%
Germany-A number of criteria must be met before a firearms ownership license is issued:
- age of consent (18 years for rimfire calibers/21 years for higher calibers) (§ 4 WaffG)
- trustworthiness (§ 5 WaffG)
- personal adequacy (§ 6 WaffG)
- expert knowledge (§ 7 WaffG) and
- necessity (§ 8 WaffG) (Necessity is automatically assumed present for licensed hunters and owners of a carry permits (Waffenschein)).
Persons who are- convicted felons
- have a record of mental disorder or
- are deemed unreliable (which includes people with drug or alcohol addiction histories and known violent or aggressive persons)
are barred from obtaining a firearms ownership license.China-
Gun ownership in the People's Republic of China outside of the military, police, and paramilitary is forbidden. Possession or sale of firearms results in a minimum punishment of 3 years in prison, with the maximum being the death penalty.
Why is America so much more violent than any other country?
What are some factors that you think cause violence?
Aren't these factors relevant in other countries?
Charlton Heston-“I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it,”
Al Gore- All my proposals are focused on that problem: gun safety. None of my proposals would have any effect on hunters or sportsmen or people who use rifles. They’re aimed at the real problem. Let’s have a three-day waiting period, A cooling off, so we can have a background check to make sure that criminals and people who really shouldn’t have guns don’t get them.
http://www.haciendapub.com/stolinsky.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
http://www.alternet.org/story/15665
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer." -- D.H. Lawrence
http://www.howardsmead.com/amviol.htm
Info from:
http://www.violencepreventioninstitute.org/gangs.html
GUN VIOLENCE: THE STAGGERING STATISTICS
Economic Cost of Gun Violence: $100 Billion annual overall cost
- Most victims are uninsured (debts are paid by public taxpayers)
- $22,400 each for unintentional shooting $18,400 each for gun assault injuries
- $5,400 each by suicide
- $73,000 per emergency room visit for released gunshot victims
- $100-$126 billion per year (Miller & Cohen) (Linda Gunderson, ;The Financial Cost of Gun Violence; Annals of Internal Medicine 1999)
- More than 10 children, and teenagers 19 and under, are killed by guns EVERYDAY, and many more are wounded.
- 77% of murdered juveniles 13-19 are killed by firearms 39% of households have a gun, 24% are handguns Annually 1,409 children and teenagers have taken their own lives with guns
- Guns kept in the home for self protection are 22x’s more likely to kill a family member or friend than to kill in self defense (;Facts For Families; July 2004) The Comparison of Gun Violence in the US and other countries -- the total of murders by handguns: 11,789 United States
- 373 Germany
- 151 Canada
- 57 Australia 54 England & Wales (total)
- 19 Japan *These numbers only account for homicides, does not include suicides; (The Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence)
- Among 26 industrialized nations, 86% of gun deaths among children under the age of 15 occurred in the United States . (The Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence)
- Contrary to beliefs young children possess the physical strength to fire a gun 25% 3-4 year olds, 70% 5-6 year olds, 90% 7-8 year olds including most semi- automatic handguns. (Christoffel Naurecka, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 1995)
- Taxpayers pay more than 85% of medical cost for treatment of firearm related injuries. (;The Cost of Hospitalization for Firearm Injuries; Jama vol.260 November 25,1998, Abstract Journal of Trauma February 1995)
- In a 10-year span, 633 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed by firearms in the US ; a handgun was the murder weapon in78% (492 victims) of those murders; of the remainder, rifles killed 106 officers and shotguns killed 35. In total 253 slained officers were equipped with armor as well. (US Dept. of Justice)
- In a 19 year time span (1977-1996) the firearm industry produced 85,644,715 firearms.
39,024,786 handguns 26,651,062 rifles(Cook & Ludwig) Breakdown in Cost by Incident
(Ted R. Miller & Mark A. Cohen ;The Cost of Gunshot & Stab wounds’’ Accident analysis and Prevention 1997)
Indirect Cost: (re: lost of productivity, mental healthcare, emergency transport, and insurance administration)
$2.8 Million per firearm fatality $249,000 per hospitalization for gunshot victim
(Phillip J. Cook, Gun Violence, ;The Real Cost; Oxford University Press 2000)
Estimated Annual Treatments for Gunshot Victims:
Children and Firearms:
MORE SOBERING FACTS;
- 19,969,867 shotguns *These are reflections of the numbers produced in the US alone.(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)
- While handguns account for only 1/3 of all firearms owned in the US , they account for more than 2/3 of all firearm related deaths each year. (Lee Kellerman ;The Epidemiology Basis for Prevention of Firearm Injuries 1991)
- Every 2 years more Americans die from firearm injuries than the total number of American soldiers killed during the 8 year Vietnam War. (CDC National Center for Health Statistics Report 1999)
- Teens & Easy Access to Guns
39% of teens know someone who has been shot before 37% of teens know someone they can get guns from- 27% of teens know a gun is kept in their house, apartment, or car (Teenage Research Unlimited 2003) More than 3,500 students were expelled from school in 1998-1999 for bringing a gun to school, 43% of them were in elementary or junior high school. This means that in a 40 week period an average of 88 children per week nationwide are expelled for having guns at school.
*These figures only include those students who were caught.(US Dept. of Education 1998-1999)
· During 1999 52% of all murder victims younger than the age of 18 were killed by firearms, and 82% of these victims were between the ages of 13-19 years old. (FBI Uniform Crime Report)